Lassal – photography
The blindness is apparent when someone lets slip the word ’snapshot’. Ignorance can always be covered by ’snapshot’. The word has never had any meaning. I am at war with the obvious.
– From a conversation with Mark Holborn, Greenwood, Mississippi, February 1988
As this website is going to evolve around the themes of hunting and collecting, I just wanted to go ahead and point out to a Daylight multimedia podcast – Brighton Photo Biennial – Alec Soth & Martin Parr in conversation.
On the occasion of receiving the Max-Beckmann-Stiftungsprofessur (do not ask) at the Staedel Academy, Luc Tuymans honored us by giving a lecture here in Frankfurt. The room was full as Tuymans speech, which was accompanied by an interesting picture show, streched and streched and wrapped itself around time. Having listened to him before I am still not sure if I was witness of a), b) or c) – but everybody clapped gratiously at the end – while I guarantee that only the fewest understood what the hell he was talking about – or was NOT talking about.
I was sitting in the second row and … could not resist taking a set of pictures – it was just too welcoming! And he took it gracefully, even though the red light of my autofocus must have caught his eye (yeah, that evil point&shoot camera again).
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